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The existing and the accepted types of bridges in use to-clay on American railroads being the results of a true evolution, no attempt to present them intelligently would be complete without a brief sketch of the past history of bridges in America. The rapid development of the new world and the enormous number of bridges that has been built within the limits of the nineteenth century, have furnished us with a wide experience, from which we have been able to select the good and reject much that was bad or undesirable.
The existing and the accepted types of bridges in use to-clay on American railroads being the results of a true evolution, no attempt to present them intelligently would be complete without a brief sketch of the past history of bridges in America. The rapid development of the new world and the enormous number of bridges that has been built within the limits of the nineteenth century, have furnished us with a wide experience, from which we have been able to select the good and reject much that was bad or undesirable.
American Railroad Bridges
Cooper, Theodore (author)
2021-01-01
581889-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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